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61) Okay for now
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
As a fourteen-year-old who just moved to a new town, with no friends, an abusive father, and a louse for an older brother, Doug Swieteck has all the stats stacked against him until he finds an ally in Lil Spicer--a fiery young lady. Together, they find a safe haven in the local library, inspiration in learning about the plates of John James Audubon's birds, and a hilarious adventure on a Broadway stage.
62) Double Fudge
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
His younger brother Fudge's obsession with money and an unexpected encounter with twin cousins Flora and Fauna and a weird younger cousin also named Farley Drexel Hatcher, just like Fudge, provide many embarrassing moments for twelve-year-old Peter.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Moose Flanagan, who lives on Alcatraz along with his family and the families of the other prison guards, is frightened when he discovers that noted gangster Al Capone, a prisoner there, wants a favor in return for the help that he secretly gave Moose.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
After their mother dies of typhoid, Verna and her younger sister Carlie move with their father, a psychiatrist, and stern Aunt Maude to an asylum for the mentally ill in early-twentieth-century Michigan, where new ideas in the treatment of mental illness are being proposed, but old prejudices still hold sway.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In their small New York town, two teenaged girls become friends while helping each other make sense of their families, neighbors, and selves as they approach adulthood in the years preceding World War II.
Author
Series
Girls of Lighthouse Lane volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In 1905, while pursuing her dreams of becoming an artist, the twelve-year-old daughter of the Cape Light lighthouse keeper learns the value of family, home, and friendship.
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2018].
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When resentment surges during the Great Depression in a Texas border town, Estrella, fifteen, organizes a protest against the treatment of tejanos and soon finds herself witih her mother and baby brother in Mexico.
71) The wild girls
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Joan moves to California in 1972, she becomes friends with Sarah, who is timid at school but an imaginative leader when they play in the woods, and after winning a writing contest together they are recruited for an exclusive summer writing class that gives them new insights into themselves and others.
Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern are off to Alabama to visit their grandmother, Big Ma, and her mother, Ma Charles. Across the way lives Ma Charles's half sister, Miss Trotter. The two half sisters haven't spoken in years. As Delphine hears about her family history, she uncovers the surprising truth that's been keeping the sisters apart. But when tragedy strikes, Delphine discovers that the bonds of family run deeper than she ever knew possible" --
74) Wonderstruck
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Having lost his mother and his hearing in a short time, twelve-year-old Ben leaves his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he never knew in New York City, and meets there Rose, who is also longing for something missing from her life. Ben's story is told in words; Rose's in pictures.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Crow has lived her entire life on a tiny, isolated piece of the starkly beautiful Elizabeth Islands in Massachusetts. Abandoned and set adrift in a small boat when she was just hours old, Crow's only companions are Osh, the man who rescued and raised her, and Miss Maggie, their fierce and affectionate neighbor across the sandbar. Crow has always been curious about the world around her, but it isn't until the night a mysterious fire...
78) Skyscraping
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In 1993 in New York City, high school senior Mira uncovers many secrets, including that her father has a male lover.
79) Cecilia's year
Author
Publisher
Cinco Puntos Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Nearly fourteen and poor, Ceclia Gonzales wants desperately to go to high school and become a teacher until her mother's old-fashioned ideas about a woman's place threaten her dreams.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Alexandre Dumas’s most famous tale— and possibly the most famous historical novel of all time. This swashbuckling epic of chivalry, honour, and derring-do, set in France during the 1620s, is richly populated with romantic heroes, unattainable heroines, kings, queens, cavaliers, and criminals in a whirl of adventure, espionage, conspiracy, murder, vengeance, love, scandal, and suspense. Dumas transforms minor historical figures into larger- than-life...
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